Last month, we did a little work with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to show you how Windows PowerShell interacts with external providers. In that column, we did some disk inventory, then ...

In which Adam demonstrates the truth in the old PowerShell adage: "The more you can limit the number of objects returned to the pipeline, the faster you code will run." Lots of commands will return ...

Windows PowerShell offers an open-source administrative tool that allows IT professionals to automate tasks on a computer network for a more efficient system.

I'm writing a script to filter event log entries using the "Get-Winevent" cmdlet. I want to get events whose levels are greater than 0 (or where LevelName isn't "Informational"). I use the ...

Today, I got a good question from a friend of mine. Let’s call my friend Steve, after all his name is Steve. Anyhow, my friend wanted to return all users within a ...

PowerShell commands such as Get-Help, Get-Command, Get-Process, Start-Process, Stop-Process, Get-Service, Stop-Service, Get-Content, Get-ChildItem, Copy-Item, Move ...